Dperiod2011SierraLeone - Post-Independence Conflict

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Post Independence of Sierra Leone

Thesis: Sierra Leone's era of post independence was brutal to the country

The Beginning of a New Government

At first, worries about tribal war between the Mende and Temne
Political division is also ethnic division
All People's Congress was a Temne based party

Economy is devastated by the leaving of the British
Agriculture
Siaka Stevens is elected prime minister in 1967
Military coup ousted Stevens a few months after he took
office
Lansana Government toppled
Previous government replaced by National Reform Council
In 1968 the Parliamentary government forcefully returns to power

Stevens as the Head of the Republic

A coup was attempted in 1971
In 1971, Sierra Leone was declared a republic
Unrest follows this period
Temne join Mende
Stevens gets the Temne on his side
Stevens ends ethnic unrest
Sierra Leone Labor Congress
Sierra Leone Alliance Movement
Terrible economy
Diamonds and corruption

Republic Loses Democracy

The 1973 election
Sierra Leone People's Party
Stevens handles another coup in 1974
National election of May 1977
A new constitution in 1978
The 1982 presidential election
The Tablet in 1984

Steven's Reign Ends

Stevens ways in refusing to retire
Bitter Retirement
Major General Joseph Momoh

References
· Sanford J. Ungar (1985) Africa The People and Politics of an Emerging Continent, New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.

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